Sweeping Proclamations and Local Nitty-Gritty: Knowledge and Social Problems
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The paper argues that sweeping proclamations about the effects of globalization relate to a world which is antithetic to that of real people. While, for example, politicians strive to meet what they 'know' to be the demands of socio-economic globalization; people contending with the problems such policies raise, deploy a repertoire of local knowledge and concomitant practices. Their knowledge combines traditional lore and lessons learned over a lifetime from dealings in ordinary local contexts. With the help of theorizations of globalization and of everyday life, it is possible to show how local knowledge interacts with the global, and to touch on indicators which are potentially decisive for the differential evolution of the 'glocal'.
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Sweeping Proclamations and Local Nitty-Gritty: Knowledge and Social Problems
In: Asian Journal of Social ScienceSearch for other papers by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman in
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Abstract
The paper argues that sweeping proclamations about the effects of globalization relate to a world which is antithetic to that of real people. While, for example, politicians strive to meet what they 'know' to be the demands of socio-economic globalization; people contending with the problems such policies raise, deploy a repertoire of local knowledge and concomitant practices. Their knowledge combines traditional lore and lessons learned over a lifetime from dealings in ordinary local contexts. With the help of theorizations of globalization and of everyday life, it is possible to show how local knowledge interacts with the global, and to touch on indicators which are potentially decisive for the differential evolution of the 'glocal'.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 136 | 14 | 1 |
| Full Text Views | 95 | 0 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 7 | 1 | 0 |
